Philip Pendleton Barbour

Philip Pendleton Barbour (25 May 1783-25 February 1841) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-VA 11) from 19 September 1814 to 4 March 1825 (succeeding John Dawson and preceding Robert Taylor) and from 4 March 1827 to 15 October 1830 (succeeding Taylor and preceding John M. Patton) and an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 12 May 1836 to 25 February 1841 (succeeding Gabriel Duvall and preceding Peter Vivian Daniel).

Biography
Philip Pendleton Barbour was born in Gordonsville, Orange County, Virginia in 1783 to a family of prominent planters. He practiced law in Bardstown, Kentucky before returning to Gordonsville, and he served in the House of Delegates from 1812 to 1814, in the US House of Representatives from 1814 to 1825 and from 1827 to 1830 (serving as Speaker from 1821 to 1823), Judge of the General Court of Virginia from 1825 to 1827, Judge of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia from 1830 to 1836, and an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court from 1836 to 1841. Barbour supported the Jeffersonian ideals of states' rights and a strict construction of the US Constitution, and he developed a reputation for constitutional conservatism. He openly contested the constitutionality of protective tariffs, and he became a Jacksonian in 1827. In 1835, President Andrew Jackson appointed Barbour to the Supreme Court to succeed Gabriel Duvall, and he served until his death in 1841, promoting Jacksonian principles and states' rights.